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November 18th, 2012 10:00
Adding non-raid hard drive to raid system
I have a Dell XPS 8300 desktop with windows 7. I replaced the two raid hard drives with faster drives and set them to Raid 0. I took one of the hard drives that had been on the machine and put it in to use as non-raid. I wanted to use it as storage only. However, when I boot up the machine, it tries to add the third hard drive as a member of the Raid 0 array. This causes a windows not to boot up. I think it may be because the third hard drive is formated for Raid 0. Does anyone know how I can put the third drive in and have it as a non-raid disk? Thanks in advance.
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DELL-Ravi Ch
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November 18th, 2012 17:00
Hi utwodogs,
Dell XPS 8300 can be configured with RAID 0 or RAID 1 or has normal three drives. You will not be able to use two hard drives for RAID 0 and use one hard drive without RAID.
Please reply for any queries.
utwodogs
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November 18th, 2012 20:00
I have done this before on the same machine with a different hard drive used in the third slot. I had two 500GB hard drives in Raid 0 for 1TB and then another 1TB hard drive that was non-raid that I used for extra storage. I an just not sure why it won't work this time using a different hard drive in the third slot. Are you saying that I need to be using Raid 1? Thanks.
osprey4
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November 19th, 2012 04:00
Hi Utwodogs,
I believe what you need to do is boot to the Ctrl-i menu and designate which drives are RAID and which are not.
utwodogs
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November 19th, 2012 07:00
I will give that a try and get back to you.
utwodogs
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November 19th, 2012 10:00
It comes back saying that the hard drive failed and when I try to reset it says Error and that there is not enough space available.
osprey4
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November 19th, 2012 12:00
"It comes back..."? Not sure where you are getting the error.
utwodogs
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November 19th, 2012 13:00
That is what it came back with when I did Cntr i. Anyway, I ended up going into Rapid Storage Tech. and reformated it to clean everything off it. Once it was clean, the system could work with it and I was able to set it up as Storage. It is working fine now and is independent of the Raid array. Thanks a bunch for everyone's suggestions!
osprey4
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November 19th, 2012 16:00
Good to hear.
Haridell
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November 20th, 2012 23:00
why cant we use two hard drives
Haridell
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November 21st, 2012 00:00
good